Projektbeschreibung

NMR signal enhancement by hyperpolarization techniques

NMR and related techniques have become indispensable tools with innumerable applications in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. One of the main obstacles in NMR is its notorious lack of sensitivity, which is due to the low equilibrium polarization of nuclear spins at ambient temperature. To overcome this issue, different hyperpolarization (HP) methods have been established to generate non-Boltzman spin populations and thus increase NMR and MRI signals by several orders of magnitude.

In our group we use two different polarization techniques: Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) and Parahydrogen Induced Polarization (PHIP).